Nov. 27, 2014

Nov. 20, 2014

Chilewich, company founded by Sandy Chilewich, introduces sturdy vinyl place mats that will be available in the first Chilewich store opening in the Flatiron district. MORE

Oct. 23, 2014

Textile company Les Indiennes introduces line of autumnal kalamkari wall hangings. MORE

Oct. 6, 2014

Textile artist Sheila Hicks, now 80 years old, recreates two 1967 tapestries originally commissioned by Ford Foundation to hang in their Manhattan building; monumental works could not be repaired and, in an unusual move, Hicks financed much of the project herself. MORE

Apr. 13, 2014

Apr. 10, 2014

Bethanne Knudson and Stephan Michelson, founders of Oriole Mill in Henderson, NC, which produces jacquard fabric and items needed to dress a bed, introduce four bedding collections in variety of color themes. MORE

Mar. 13, 2014

Herman Miller is reviving wool throws designed by former textile design director Alexander Girard for Braniff International Airways. MORE

Feb. 20, 2014

Feb. 13, 2014

Newest textile collection from Spanish designer Rocio Moreno includes Orissa, wall hanging that depicts stylized tree and is named for former state in India. MORE

Feb. 6, 2014

Fabrics featuring art by Sonia Delaunay, Marc Chagall and Alexander Calder are among the 200 objects in Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol, at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. MORE

Jan. 12, 2014

Rivka Galchen essay offers behind-the-scenes look at the nearly lost art of American textile manufacturing. MORE

Dec. 19, 2013

Felt designer Dana Barnes is exhibiting her evolving collection of sculptural forms, called Cling, at Ralph Pucci's Miami showroom. MORE

Dec. 12, 2013

Les Indiennes, Hudson, NY, shop opened by Mary Bergtold Mulcahy, sells items made with block-printed organic cottons she designs with Indian textile artisan Srinivas Pitchuka. MORE

Dec. 2, 2013

Idarica Gazzoni derives her whimsical decorative motifs from a wide array of culture and eras, including 17th-century Russia and 19th-century Japan. MORE

Dec. 1, 2013

Textile and apparel companies are shifting more production to United States, taking advantage of automation and other cost savings; yet, retailers and manufacturers say consumers’ stated desire for American-made clothing is often outweighed by a preference for lower prices of foreign-made goods (Series: American Made). MORE

Nov. 7, 2013

Work of Hechizoo, textile studio that combines native plant fibers with nylon filament and metal to create iridescent carpets and screens, will have its second show at Cristina Grajales Gallery in New York. MORE

Sep. 24, 2013

More than 100 Bangladeshi garment factories are forced to shut down as thousands of protesting workers demand $100-a-month minimum wage; about 50 people are injured in clashes between the police and protesters. MORE

Sep. 20, 2013

Textile factories are bustling again in the United States, but those that survived industry outsourcing in 1990s have largely turned to automation and are employing far fewer workers than before; textile and apparel exports were $22.7 billion in 2012, up 37 percent from 2009; thriving industries are indicative of broader reassessment by American companies about manufacturing in United States (Series: American Made). MORE

Sep. 19, 2013

Audrey DiSciascio has, along with designer Perla Nunez, revived her mother's Viriginia DiSciascio Antique Textiles brand in Upper East Side shop; new venture, called Antique Textiles collection, features rare textiles as well as room dividers and sofa cushions. MORE

Sep. 13, 2013

Jul. 11, 2013

Jiun Ho IV Collection of furniture, inspired by designer Jiun Ho's travels in South America, is upholstered in luxury alpaca textiles by Sandra Jordan. MORE

Jun. 15, 2013

Italians once believed that craftsmanship and quality would save us from bankruptcy. MORE

Apr. 30, 2013

Op-Ed article by author M T Anderson traces history of textile factory disasters, in wake of collapse of Bangladeshi factory complex; points out garment manufacturing has followed predictable pattern of skimping on safety to produce cheap clothing; holds best way to address problem is to accept that relatively small increase in cost would lead to vast improvement of safety conditions for those who make cheap clothing. MORE

Apr. 25, 2013

Textile and carpet designer Madeline Weinrib has been asked to transform Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Upper East Side thrift shop into occasional pop-up boutique for designer sample sales; first sale, offering rugs, clothing and fabric. MORE

Apr. 11, 2013

Custom fabrics from Brooklyn-based textile designer Hiroko Takeda can cost $200 to $600 a yard, and 75-by-25-inch panel of her intricate Giant Waffle Cartography series can be priced upward of $1,500. MORE

Apr. 4, 2013

Theater costume designer and dressmaker Emilio Sosa, who designed outfits for plays Motown: The Musical and Sense and Sensibility, describes how his period costumes still reflect his personality; textile company Scalamandre has revived its famous zebra print that decorated wallpaper at now-defunct Gino's restaurant in Manhattan. MORE

Mar. 21, 2013

Denver Art Museum exhibit Spun: Adventures in Textiles lives in various parts of the museum to encourage visitors to move about and explore more of the institution, not just the one show. MORE

Feb. 28, 2013

Pragmatist column offers quick fixes for stained fabric when a new sofa is not an option, MORE

Feb. 21, 2013

Fabric called Biwa by Serena Perrone, who makes silk-screened photolithographs that meld images recalling Japanese Edo woodcuts with domestic Western objects and architecture, is hand-printed to order. MORE

Feb. 14, 2013

Formica turns 100 and is celebrated with four new designs from Pentagram. MORE

Jan. 24, 2013

Zuzunaga, textile company that specializes in bright grids and organic abstraction, introduces collection of bright wool blankets called Bitmap. MORE

Dec. 13, 2012

Taiwan's textile industry, once main pillar of country's economic development, has transformed over past 15 years from low-cost fabric makers to producers of high-tech specialized materials that are being snapped up by European and North American brands. MORE

Dec. 13, 2012

Book The Collier Campbell Archive: 50 Years of Passion in Pattern collects textile design work of sisters Sarah Campbell and Susan Collier. MORE

Nov. 12, 2012

Husband-and-wife team of Mark Barrow and Sarah Parke have turned living room of their Sunnyside, Queens, apartment, which is dominated by two manual textile looms, into space for producing textile-based art that forms their livelihood. MORE

Nov. 1, 2012

Show and sale of antique textiles from collection of interior designer Mae Festa will be at the New York Design Center. MORE

Oct. 14, 2012

Exhibit featuring bold and colorful clothing prints by mid-century textile designers D D and Leslie Tillett opens at the Museum of the City of New York. MORE

Sep. 20, 2012

Shanan Campanaro, artist and designer who founded Brooklyn wallpaper and fabric company Eskayel, shops around Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for richly patterned textiles. MORE

Jul. 26, 2012

Hotel design director Kit Kemp shops around New York City for dynamic and interesting embroidered textiles for the home. MORE

Jul. 5, 2012

Jun. 21, 2012

Design company Studio Job introduces a fabric with a bucolic farm motif for the textile company Maharam. MORE

May. 6, 2012

Pietra Rivoli It's the Economy column observes that the decline in American textile production has created a surplus of used manufacturing equipment, which businesspeople in developing nations are eager to buy. MORE